I figured that this is coming out in the Summer of 2005(which I find hard to believe that Spielberg will be finished on time to release it then) and since I didn't see a thread on this, I thought I'd be the 1st to start one.. So far, I'm probably in the majority or so that enjoyed "Minority Report" and the collaboration of both Spielberg and Cruise.. I also enjoyed the Dark, Futuristic look it had as well as the storyline of arresting someone for a crime before they commit it.. With that having been said and not having seen a trailer for this yet and sort of premature guessing, I think "War of the Worlds" will play out the same way "Minority Report" did..

I Predict for Opening Weekend: 70-80 Million

Overall Domestic Total: 220-250 Million.. Any takers?? :wink:

I liked Minority report....Farrell was hot...oh I think your box is full.

Nah.. I've just been real busy tonight with alot of check-ins at work, plsu I'm exhausted since Paydays are busy days for me in paying bills and whatnot.. Charter Cable was sure happy to hear from me..

I bet they were

So as not to get off track, what's your early prediction for this movie "War of the Worlds"??

it has cruise in it it will do pretty good.

So give me a round about number here, just a guess.. What do you think this will make opening weekend and overall domestic total??

30K maybe 35K?

70-80m opening sounds good right now

total: about 200m

I used to think $49/$210, but now i think:

Opening: $73 Million

Total: $398 Million

ehhhhmmm... you think it will have such good legs??? (thats a 5.45x multiplier)!!

comparison:

LotR:RotK: 5.191
Shrek 2: 4.08
Minority Report: 3.702

You can see that the summer-movie Shrek 2 had a much lower multiplier, moreover, RotK had an advantage cause of the oscar-ceremony and didn't reach 5.45! Minority Report - best to compare with WotW - had a pretty decent multiplier with 3.7...

Just want to say that IF you're right, WotW will have one of the most amazing box office runs ever! 8)

opening : 88,000,000 if not with FF
Total : 340,000,000

Opening of $71M. Closing of $212M. It won't have that great of legs, but it's summer weekdays should push it over $200M. Of course, as there is no trailer or even a real synopsis of this movie I really can't make a real prediction. This could pull a Hulk, but I think it'll be more like MI:2.

It will definately do better than Day After Tommorrow. Since that movie almost passed 200 million, I'm thinking War of the Worlds can gross anywhere from 210-250 million. Not as good as ID4 but with Spielberg and Cruise's name attached to it and it being based on a the popular radio broadcast, it will do in the 200 millions'. The competition from this summer will cut into its potential from Batman Begins, Star Wars and Madagascar.

80/220 million

Feel it wont be big as some of you predict.

$60m opening with $150m-$160m total.

$75M/$265M

Im picturing Signs #'s, but a bit more opening weekend.

Opening: $68.0 million
Total: $224.4 million

Well from the look of things here, it seems many people predicting in the upper 300+ Million are very optimistic in this making some big buck$$$$... I hope your right but somehow, this sort of has a MINORITY REPORT feel going for it from the pics... I loaned that to my friend a couple of days ago and he just watched it the other night for the 1st time and enjoyed it alot.. 8)

This seems like an interesting movie that's a bit different from the others. The only chance it has for success is if it's not dark. Think about the big 4: King Kong, Batman Begins, Star Wars Ep 3, Harry Potter 4. They are all going to be very dark (not sure about King Kong, though).

Opening: $70.0
Total: $313.0

I'm a bit optimistic about this one, though.

My guess is...

Opening weekend: $63.4m
Total gross: $218.3m

Opening: $91 Mio.
Final: $304 Mio.

Opening 104 Million
Total: 321 million

4-Day weekend- 102 million
Total 265 million